Texico as well.

Thom,

I understand your perspective and ground zero experience but while I cannot speak to Texas, I certainly can speak to the Southern California. The impact on the schools (where we pay more than any other state per pupil, apprx $7K and get a 47th in the nation ranking scholastically for our expenditure) is at least somewhat tied to the disproportional amount of non-English speaking students enrolled.

Those costs are tangible; the amount of expenses per pupil vs. the employer/employee paid taxes btw think about the ratio...how many kids per employee enrolled and intangible; the adjustments the education system has to employ to accomodate the language learning curve. In our state education funding comes predominately from home owners via property taxes.

That is just one impact that is part and parcel of the resistence to your side of the argument. You the employer and the illegal the employee are paying a small portion of the expenses borne by tax payers in both education, health care and other social costs.

For example, it costs us in California 35K per year per inmate. 108,000 (nearly a third) of current prison inmates are illegal immigrants in jail for offenses unrelated to their immigration status.

Your employer tax contributions are insufficient to offset the $3,780,000,000 we pay just to house these prisoners.

Also, $10 per hour is not anywhere close to a "living wage" in California.

I could be wrong, afterall I am a product of the State of California's eductaion system and thereby arguing at a disadvantage... No Habla Corporate Rationalizations.

sorry

wcbiv,

It is true that CA spends more per capita on prisoners than it does on high school students.

However, it is much easier to get a date in prison.

Dallas too funny :)

Of course, there are those occassions when the High School Student and the Inmate are one in the same and hence begs the question; do they get $42K (35 + 7)?

Students are less expensive than Prisoners because...

*they won't eat the institutions food

*they ditch their appointed cell/class

*Prison guards have to speak English whereas Teachers only need to speak PC

*Bullets cost more than Erasers